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I have a bad habit of turning everything I love into work, but I feel I must really write something about Dectorists. Thinking a lot about masculinity and ideas of "the land" with this rewatch. https://twitter.com/Matt_Denny/status/1245119413591977990">https://twitter.com/Matt_Denn...
A shifted connection to the landscape - not one of work but one of leisure. An impulse to mastery of the land thwarted by the land& #39;s refusal to yield either treasure or explanation, only incongruous detritus
[But also the blurring of leisure and work, leisure as a sort of labour]
Ultimately an embrace of this shifted relationship, priviliging play and community over work and mastery
I half remember a thing Robert Macfarlane wrote (in Mountains of the Mind?) about the conceptual difference between Nan Shepherd& #39;s writing and other imaginings of mountains
Where for others the mountain is all about the peak, Shepherd is about traversing the mountain - a move to horizontality rather than verticality
Except of course with Dectorists it& #39;s about depth not height
Oh the irony of opening this thread with "I turn everything I love into work" !!!
